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There’s a New, More Complete Social Network in Beta Out There!

FacebookWith the growing discomfort people have with Facebook over recent years, I’ve occasionally kept an eye out for other social networks that might replace it. I’ve tried a few in the past and they all had problems one way or another. Some had next to no privacy settings. It looked like Facebook but acted like Twitter. Others had severe operational problems, such as comments on a single photo being propagated across all photos in an album. Those that let you create groups often had weird setups that didn’t seem to have any security built into them. A closed group was still open to the public too. Others that let you create business pages had strange ways of managing them and those tools sometimes overlapped your personal profile unexpectedly.

I finally had a chance to test another one recently. I could have tried it a few weeks earlier, but at that time it wouldn’t accept a hyphen in the middle of my domain name. However, it finally let me sign up using my own hosted email address. The ability to create groups or pages isn’t present in this network, nor is the ability to create photo albums, although I think it’s safe to say that most social media users don’t do that anyway. I’m always surprised when friends will comment on a set of photos, seemingly oblivious to the fact they clearly state they are part of a larger album. Needless to say, this one omission honestly won’t be missed by most people I know because they never used it in the first place.

The real plus in this new network, is how your contact list is managed. For starters, it’s not called a “friends” list. For me, friends are friends, co-workers, acquaintances, classmates, camp or church buddies, etc. The contact list at this new network is divided between professional and personal lists, allowing you to share certain things with each list. I thought I would try adding a friend who signed up for the service a couple weeks ago, and I had the option of adding her to either list. I added her to both, because we are both friends and professional colleagues.

When you create a post on the service home page, the default privacy setting is in bright orange, and says “public”. Click the dropdown arrow beside this setting, and you can choose if you wish to share it with your professional list, personal list, or just yourself (such as in case of making a note to yourself about something that no one else needs to see).

This new network has been in beta since 2016, and this Fall apparently went through a number of upgrades to the system. The polish that is on the current system leads me to believe that new features won’t be added unless they are as complete as the developers can make them. The presentation of the site does not lead me to believe this is a pre-written downloadable code package like so many others out there. If it is, then the developers are doing an amazing job customizing it to suit the inventor. However, judging from tidbits slowly showing up in the zendesk help area, this site is being built from the ground up. I like that!

LinkedinWhen the network comes out of beta, a full-featured affiliate system will kick into high gear immediately, as will a purchasable upgrade to pro feature. This feature is in direct competition with LinkedIn, offering similar search and communication options for those who want or need that functionality.

Unlike LinkedIn or Facebook, you can’t create groups or business pages, at least not at this time. The road map available on the founder’s own profile page however, does have these things listed as future additions.  Groups however, sound very different from what people are used to on FB or LinkedIn.  They appear to be more along the lines of groups of people you can contact, much like how you send emails to groups of people.

Adding to your newsfeed is done from the home page as well, not from your personal profile. This isn’t to say your personal profile isn’t important, it’s VERY important! If you are business-minded, use this as your CV and fill in as much as you can. If you are here to socialize, fill in the parts you want the public to know and leave the rest. However, the site does say that if you wish to receive commissions in the future, you should complete your entire profile one way or the other.

Part of completing your profile is obtaining 10 contacts for your lists. Again, unlike LinkedIn or Facebook, this service is currently invite-only. There was a time when Facebook was invite-only too, back when it was just a Harvard-only social network. But I remember the year it stopped doing that and went public. Whether or not this network goes public in the future remains to be seen, but for now, it is invite only. As such, you have two links you can share: Your personal profile, or your referral link. Because of the potential for future earnings with the site after official launch, you want to put your best foot forward. Building your list now lets people try out the system for themselves and if they approve, start bringing over their friends and colleagues. If you want a piece of the Internet Marketing Income pie, don’t skip this!

Many people are disillusioned with FB now, and are looking for networks that respect their privacy, respect their freedom of expression, and don’t censor them for having conservative or liberal viewpoints. If you know people like this, then start rebuilding your contact list here:

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Ashtree Wildcrafting

From Frugality and Foraging to Small Business

It’s been awhile since writing another blog post here. Physical health has not been good for months first with a damaged foot and then with a broken collarbone. This has strained already tight finances and made it difficult to get out and forage. Even if mobility had been available, the Okanagan got socked in with heavy smoke so bad at one point that our air quality was worse than Bejing’s!

Ashtree WildcraftingBut all was not lost. Various friends began telling us that we needed to start selling the teas my daughter makes from some of our dried foraged wild ingredients. Being laid up after surgery was the perfect time to start researching necessary licenses and paperwork to get the idea off the ground. Ashtree Wildcrafting was registered with the Canadian government by the end of July, and our first sale of tea from the website took place this very weekend in September! Once the smoke cleared and mobility began to return, we got out there foraging not just for ourselves this time, but for the business as well, on property whose owners granted us permission for a wide swath of their property. What began as meeting a need to stay healthy on a limited budget, has morphed into a small business!

The beauty of online business was brought home to me in the first three weeks after my collarbone surgery, when I received a couple active sign-ups over at SFI! One of those is still active, and because of these two, I was able to upgrade my affiliate status for a month in August. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to repeat the upgrade for October or not, but we’ll see. These two people saw ads I’d already posted around the ‘net prior to my accident, and saw the opportunity the way I see it, BUT had money to do more with it than I’ve been doing.

SFI recently added a couple new features to their online empire as well. Astro Auctions is one of them, and I’ve been playing those whenever I win a T-Time contest to win T-Credits. T-credits are necessary to enter these online silent auctions. Because of making EA back in August, I was able to receive 10 T-Credits in September, and spent most of those on one daily silent auction entry for several days. Those drastically boosted my Rewardical stash, because each T-credit spent on a silent auction earns you at least 10 Rewardicals, if not more. I’m saving them to help me go EA in the future.

I spent a couple T Credits playing one of the games over at Eager Zebra, and they have a new word game there as of this month, called HIDDEN. Foxes are hiding letters of a word and offering clues to what the word is. But the hints aren’t always easy to guess. If you spot a red, silver or the rare white fox, you get extra game points and other rewards as well. I’ve spotted the rare white fox twice now and have a badge to show for it. I’ve also “outfoxed” the foxes once so far, meaning I successfully guessed at least 10 words before my 30 clues ran out. If you like word games, you need to check out Eager Zebra. They have trivia, card, and sports picks as well.

The one source that seems to send me sign-ups more consistently than others continues to be InfinityTrafficBoost. I get eyeballs from other sources, but ITB continues to be the one that sends me regular sign-ups. I even changed my SFI gateway to one that says income doesn’t come without work and effort. This means there are actually people out there who honestly do want to work, and this is a good thing. There are many more out there who want money for nothing, but that never works.

The Poor Man's BudgetI recently ran across an article claiming you can’t live on $75 per week for a 3-member family with two teenagers. If you’ve taken my course: The Poor Man’s Budget (or anyone for that matter): A 5 Week Course – Learning to live within your means, you will know that I actually do teach how to feed your family on what I refer to as LESS than a shoe-string budget! In fact, it was those thoughts that spawned this blog to begin with. Too often, people’s ideas of saving money or spending on a shoe-string budget assume you have more income coming in than I typically do. I felt it was necessary to start this blog to show how I teach this concept, how I live this concept, and what can come of this concept. The neat thing is when figuring out methods to feed my family better turn into a business concept like they did this summer.

It’s amazing how much money people find when they strip their expenses down to the bare essentials. For my household, that stripping down means less stress trying to figure out how to pay essential bills. it is my hope that my online endeavors begin to change our financial picture, but in the meantime, how we’ve learned to live will continue to be something we share with others to help ease their loads as well.

Metrics, Marketing, and Methods from the Past!

When it comes to building an income online, marketing and promotion are huge components of your business-building strategy – even more so than brick-and-mortar store fronts. At least with a store on the street, the very fact you have a sign over your door is passive marketing right there. People walk or drive past, see your sign, stop and come in. The Internet back in the 90’s and early 2000’s was very similar. The adage “build it and they will come” was very true. Some of the marketing aids available today hark back to those early days. AdlandPro by Frank Bauer is one of them. He was an early promoter of email safelist marketing and classified ad marketing as you’ll see on the linked page, and AdlandPro continues to be a going concern. When I first signed up to this service back then, I had no clue how to organize myself so that my inbox wasn’t flooded in safelist emails. It got so bad that I eventually stopped using the service. I just couldn’t figure out how to stay on top of it. Decades later, I find myself disillusioned with social media marketing avenues and both re-discovering and revisiting former methods. Now however, I’ve developed better organization methods, better time management skills, and thus can make better use of such services as a safelist marketing.


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No matter what marketing or promotional service, method, or system you choose, you won’t know if it’s benefitting your end goals if you don’t set down some metrics for yourself. Basic metrics you want to pay attention to are:

1) How many hits your site is getting.
2) Where those hits are coming from.
3) Conversions or stickiness because of those hits.

If you use a wordpress site, jetpack’s sitestats give you a fair bit of this information already. You get stats on how many hits from various sources visited what pages or posts on your site from what countries using what devices with what operating systems and browsers in use. Some of these stats you can get from within your wordpress dashboard, others you get from connecting jetpack to your wordpress.com account and clicking through the jetpack sitestats to view the more comprehensive information.

How many hits came from where is VERY important information to have when deciding how best to utilize your time with free marketing efforts. In general, free marketing efforts involve you trading your time for the results you are after. You are still invested in the process, you’ve simply chosen time as your currency instead of cash.

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To this end, it was helpful for me to observe trends taking place as I used InfinityTrafficBoost to promote my primary link listed there as a free member. I’ve also begun using a webring service and safelists again. The webring traffic and signups has picked up in the last few months from the time stamp of this blog post, but was quiet for some time. Safelist marketing is something I’m starting to watch a little more closely because those that provide me with “email open” stats are generally showing maybe a 1 – 3% click rate. This means if I send to 100 people on a site that only gives me 10 credits per email read (that’s 10 emails per safelist) I might see a max of 10 people actually bothering to open my emails.

The second safelist stat comes from my wordpress sitestats instead. This is the number of clicks my promoted link got within those emails. Some of my stats are currently skewed because of lack of time in my day over the past while to regularly stay on top of the safelists I have (over 15 at last count), but because of that skewing, I am looking at my stats asking myself where to spend my time. You can find the full list of safelists I use on my “where I promote” page in the top menu bar here. I’ve already axed a couple sites where the email to marketing ratio was only 2:1 or 5:1. Now the only sites up on the list are at least 10:1 where I get 10 credits for every 1 email I view. Each credit is a person I can send a mailing to as a free member.

So far the click-through response rate has Freeadvertisingforyou.com on top followed by bigmailer and US Largest Safelist. 1ProfitWebring is sending me traffic now regularly as is 1TAE which is both an ad bar and a traffic exchange. The webring and ad bar are both passive ways to get email and/or visit credits simply by having their code on the pages I am promoting. So they piggy-back on my landing pages, sending me credits. 1ProfitWebring lets me send out emails every 7 days so it is also a dual-duty free service.

Some of the safelists have surprised me with how little I get in responses. Others have surprised me with how responsive they actually are. Bigmailer doesn’t just claim to have a responsive mailing list, my stats show an actual active readership.

I am testing out another traffic exchange that lets me add multiple website links as a free member, and I’ve recently begun testing a new bitcoin mailer, sister site to InfinityTrafficBoost. So far that one takes a fair bit of time to do the 100 sites per day but the daily earnings are pretty good right now! 100 sites earned me 44100 satoshi in one 2hr session as a free member! I did a test email send yesterday to see how that would go. However, if this turns out to be one of those “surf every day, send every two or three days”, it might become a solid way to get paid while promoting my sites!

Unless you are actively promoting a mailer’s paid advertising packages, most of the time you won’t earn anything. The idea of being paid to read emails is fairly new and I think only one other site is doing anything similar, but on the “read to earn” scale, not the “read to earn and read to send” end of things.

Interestingly enough, both InfinityTrafficBoost and now its sister-site, “InfinityMailerBoost” are co-owned/created by Frank Bauer! I feel as if I’ve run smack back into an old acquantance as a result!

Using InfinityMailerBoost as a free member means only marketing URL’s that you have created a tracking code for, so that you can visit your own stats will show how well your emails are doing. The link I used in my test email did not have a tracking code, so that’s my mistake, not theirs. Members who buy one of 11 ad packs designed very closely after what I am used to seeing on ITB, do get open and click stats. So the testing continues over at this new mailer to see how it will perform. In the meantime, I get to earn satoshi while I’m at it, so that’s a good thing.

That’s two sites now that pay you to promote your own link!

Incomplete List of BTC Shopping and Bill-paying Sites

In light of the trouble that many BTC Debit card issuers have and are still having trying to obtain and reissue their cards, 10 Steps to Financial Freedom has had to be written starting with Step Three and is now only 7 steps in lengthEDIT (Nov 2018)* While it appears Wirex is getting a globally-accepted card online, Canadians are still on a wait list.* To assist with that, this partial list of places where you can pay your bills, purchase gift cards for use in offline stores, etc. was formed.  Some of the links here are to other articles outlining some surprising ways others have found to build this list or simply to spend BTC in general.  Other links go directly to sites themselves.  A word of warning that occasionally, some of the lists included here contain “adult-only” links.  If you value your own sanity, your family’s sanity, and your computer’s health, don’t visit those links!  Do yourself a favour and skip over them to the rest of the content that is much more useful.

US-only:

Household Shopping:
https://www.overstock.com/
https://overstock.force.com/help/s/article/Bitcoin-for-International-Orders

General shopping:
https://www.egifter.com/buy-gift-cards-with-bitcoin/
https://99bitcoins.com/who-accepts-bitcoins-payment-companies-stores-take-bitcoins/
https://www.gyft.com/bitcoin/

Eating out:
http://bitcoinrestaurants.net/

Canada only:

Pay Bills:
https://Bylls.com

General Shopping:
https://coincards.ca

Australia – only

Pay bills:
https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com/
https://www.bit2bill.com.au/

The Netherlands:

Arnhem the city:
https://btcmanager.com/bitcoin-travel-guide-exploring-the-bitcoin-stad-arnhem/

International

Electronics and hardware purchases:
Newegg.com – Spending with Bitcoin

General Shopping:
Any Shopify-based store where the merchant has accepted the option to allow BTC as a valid form of payment.

https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-for-beginners/what-can-i-buy-with-bitcoins#list-of-major-online-merchants

 

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Infinity Traffic Boost Update 9 Mo Into Using the Service

Update report on how InfinityTrafficBoost has been doing since I joined in early August 2017:

Marketing efforts online can take anywhere from one to three months to get decent trends developing that one can work with. I spent most of the past year more focussed on the earning side of surfing than I did on the marketing side, although a free member does have their share of links and banners they can promote on the traffic exchange. However, in the past several months, I began noticing trends that I found rather encouraging on the advertising side of life.

simple chart illustrationCourses I’ve taken in marketing for on and offline efforts generally state that you have to show someone something at least 7 times before they take action. These courses also teach that you need at least 1000 views to your product or service online before you start seeing action. Some say in more recent years that this number has ballooned to 10,000 views or more. This is due to the fact that so many more websites are out there and so many more viewers to get over to your site who are now largely jaded by most advertising.

Safelists are coming back into vogue in a huge way to get human eyeballs back on company advertisements. Traffic Exchanges have become another big item on the scene again, to get real human beings viewing ads and websites once more. Many offer 2:1 or 4:1 or other odds whereby a free user of these services can get so many other eyeballs sent to their site in exchange for the number of sites that user surfs themselves. Safelists offer free members so many email sends in a week whether once per day, once every 3 days, every 5 days, etc. Some offer as little as 1 credit per email viewed while others offer up to 50 email credits per email viewed.

I am a free member of over 12 different safelists, several classified ad sites, and InfinityTrafficBoost as the only Traffic Exchange that I am actually working. I think I joined a couple others, but with ITB not merely giving me credits to send other surfers to my site, but also paying me to surf, I got spoiled and only really hang out there compared to the other TE’s.

But as I was saying, recent months began showing trends that I wanted to share today. The first is that I get, on average as a free member, roughly 750 views per month to the various links I’ve put up on ITB. The main link goes to SFI and is the one actually being surfed by other members as they participate in the TE. While I was getting sporadic sign-ups to SFI from my safelist efforts, I could go for up to two months or more at a time before anyone would sign up. Meanwhile over at ITB, I am averaging roughly 2 sign-ups to SFI per month! That totally blows those marketing stats I mentioned earlier out the window!

A friend of mine recently signed up in April 2018, and is promoting her husband’s blog. Hardly a week into using ITB, she reported that Google Analytics was saying surfers from ITB were spending on average, 2+ minutes each at the blog link she’s promoting. Now keep in mind that an ITB surfer must sit at each website for 15 seconds before they earn another .25 ad credit and work toward their surfer reward pool shares. A free member can earn up to 25 full ad credits per day minimum, and up to 10 surfer reward pool shares that pay them at midnight EST every day. With those stats, my friend got excited and asked if she could surf more than her 100 daily sites. I replied that yes, you can, as long as you understand you will only get paid on the first 100 sites.

There’s more to InfinityTrafficBoost than what free members can do for sure! Advertisers can purchase any of 11 Traffic Package Options (TPO) and each one lets them advertise more links the higher they go, and purchase more ad credits the higher they go as well. One of the co-founders of ITB recently began doing comparison research to see how ITB’s traffic packages compare to other traffic exchanges out there and discovered that ITB’s prices are anywhere from 30% cheaper to over 50% cheaper than many of the TE’s he’s already looked at. In addition, advertisers wanting to save even more money can now make use of a brand new feature on the site called “The Ad Credit Auction”. This is where surfers make accumulated ad credits available for sale starting in 1000 ad credit increments, for prices well below ITB’s usual TPO pricing. Of course all you’re buying at the auction are ad credits. No additional link capabilities come with it or other benefits. But the potential for purchasing human views of your site drops significantly in this auction room.

I got thinking recently myself, that ITB will now be attracting two types of users: The earner, and the advertiser. Earners can advertise, and advertisers can earn, with 80% commissions possible, but each type of user will have a larger focus. Advertisers can even turn off the earnings capability if they choose, in their settings. This step alone boosts the number of eyeballs they can get on their websites.

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My own focus is primarily on the earnings side of things. if I can find 4 active referrals who will do their 100 sites every day for a month or more, the snowball will start roughly 30 days later and then I can start working my way out of debt! Earnings are in BTC, but can be paid out in Etherium or Litecoin. Coinbase, the service ITB uses to pay in BTC still has high fees even though other places have dropped theirs to almost nothing, so ITB is recommending users get paid in Etherium or Litecoin and then exchange that to BTC to send to their primary wallet. Qoinpro is a good place to go for those kinds of transactions by the way. I’ll be making use of their services in this regard hopefully soon.

I could have cashed out in BTC within a month or so already, but decided to take another stab at “TPO my way up” which lets you automatically purchase TPO’s based on what you’ve earned, rather than purchase out-of-pocket. If I can find 3 other active referrals between now and the end of June, that will be great. Otherwise I’m looking at my first potential cash out this coming summer. If I hadn’t been attempting the TPO my way up method all last year, I’d have cashed out twice by now. But the months where I only accumulated my earnings instead have been some very interesting months on the advertising end of things!

If you want these stats for yourself, sign up here using my referral link. I’d love to have you on board!

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ANNOUNCEMENT! InfinityTrafficBoost Webinar Today!

Passing on a quick announcement here that won’t fit in most Social Media status updates!  This is from Clinton Clark, Co-founder of InfinityTrafficBoost himself!  If you are looking for a less-stressful form of work that has the potential to pay the bills, sign up NOW!

Webinar Thursday! 
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Okay, we are finally getting on track and starting to hold regular LIVE Webinars so you can learn more about the ITB system and opportunity AND invite your prospects and referrals!

We always hang out after each webinar to take any questions and to help you and your team to fully understand ITB and it’s potential to help you grow your income and online business.

Okay, so, we’ll eventually have a set schedule each week, but, for now, this week we’ll have TWO webinars on Thursday, April 12th at 11:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. U.S. Pacific Daylight Time (Check your local time on the registration page, easy to do!)

6:30 p.m. Webinar, Register Here:
https://zoom.us/m…/register/d6011a7ecb94db2fc5b9141539e44ee6

Thanks and we hope to see you and your referrals and prospects at one or both of the webinars tomorrow.

Clint
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I’ve registered for the 6:30pm time slot.  Will you join me?

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Passover and Bitcoin ~ As Seasons Change. . .

Spring has sprung, which means now you’ll start seeing more about foraging again as well as my BTC adventures and financial budgetting tips, thoughts and adventures.

Around our house, we celebrate Passover instead of Easter, which made the incredibly early lunar holiday a bit of a challenge for us this year. We visited one of our usual foraging grounds to see if any plants were poking above the ground yet, and managed to come home with a few samples to at least use in the ceremony portion of the meal if we couldn’t have them as an actual salad yet. Combined with a ground-ivy my daughter’s been nibbling on at work, we managed to have very cute symbolic salads this year!

On the Bitcoin front, Uquid still doesn’t have a replacement debit/credit card yet, but for Canadians that’s not a terrible thing just yet. Today I paid a tiny amount that was placed on a new high-interest-charging Canadian Tire MCRD, through Bylls.com. This service lets Canadians pay their bills directly with Bitcoin! The service exchanges the funds on the spot and if the bill is below a certain threshold, there is no transaction fee at Bylls. You may still have to pay a transaction fee at your wallet’s end however, so if you live in Canada and want to use BTC to pay bills, make sure you are ok with the transaction fee your wallet wants before sending your funds through Bylls or any other service for that matter. In the same way you have to decide if it’s worth $5 to have someone else shop and deliver your groceries or spend $2.5 in gas to go do it yourself, you need to make similar decisions when spending your Bitcoin. Is the convenience of using a service such as Bylls wise for you, or is the convenience costing more than you wish to pay?

Always choose the option that leaves the most funds in your wallet. If that means a little extra work, or a little longer wait time, the delayed gratification of knowing you didn’t have to spend more than necessary will pay off. Fees add up and many people forget this, wondering where their funds went.

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Quoting Clinton Clark, Co-Founder of Infinity Traffic Boost

Clinton Clark Co-Founder of Infinity Traffic Boost and Co-Admin of the Official “Infinity Traffic Boost Members” group on Facebook (Jan 28, 2017) shared the following in answer to a frustrated member’s post in the group. I have permission to share it here:

Here’s the deal… ITB was created to:

(1) Provide a fantastic advertising platform with an ever-increasing value proposition and
(2) to allow an easy way for ANYone around the world to earn money.

For those who do not have funds, even $2 or $3 to get started at TPO1, the surfing provides the opportunity to begin.

Now……….. think about it…….think about the POWER.. especially for those in “less developed” nations where incomes are much lower than the “developed” world.

ALL THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO DO is to surf 100 pages a day, and SHARE with 4 people who all they have to do is to Surf 100 Pages (every day: edit mine) and share with 4 people who will do the same.

WHY is that so hard? There is NO money out-of-pocket, the system is sound and mathematically solid and a HUGE Income can be realized over time.

What other options do people have? Jump into a ponzi scheme and hope to get out before it collapses?

Where else can people work from home, be around family and have such a HUGE upside potential with NO risk (other than time spent?).

I just don’t understand why people are so afraid to share this incredible opportunity. The upside is so incredible and the downside is basically non-existent.

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Now go and view the following video or read the linked PDF here: https://infinitytrafficboost.com/bitcoin.php?id=songdove

ITB is the foundation for my 10 Steps to Financial Freedom: https://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/go/10stepstofreedom/

10 Steps to Financial Freedom

Clinton Clark and Frank Bauer are the real deal, with extensive experience in online marketing since the early days when I first ran across Frank at AdlandPro in the early 2000’s. AdlandPro continues to this day as a testament to success over the years, and so much more!

If you work the system as designed, you are in good hands! Fail to work the system by being committed to just 100 pages every single day, and there is no one to blame but yourself. This is one of those few programs out there that will take someone with no cash (or worse than no cash, and only debt) and give them a legitimate and workable way to raise themselves out of their poverty.

All that’s needed is an Internet connection long enough to get those 100 sites surfed each day.

Who do you know could use this program?

End-to-End System for Earning, Saving, Growing, Spending BTC!

As I prepare to type tonight, I am busy in InfinityTrafficBoost doing my 100 site surf routine for the day.  The rest of what I am about to type about today however, begins with the earnings that Faucet Ally has netted me since March of 2017.  It is my goal to get ITB doing the same thing and ITB has the higher opportunity to do so in a far safer fashion.  In addition to the faucets originally listed on Faucet Ally, other contributors were found that are also paying.  These have been added to the end of the Faucet Ally page.

(NOTE: Image links are provided tonight because it seems my server isn’t always serving them to you, sorry for any hassle, but wanted to show you certain pics today)

I am now at click 57 in ITB because I realized this blog article couldn’t be written till I updated Faucet Alley!  Eesh!  To complete one task, another has to be completed first.  Kind of feels like the domestic life of a house wife, compute repair tech, or network administrator!  The job’s never done.  Or so it seems.

Since March, I’ve been on the prowl for active, useful ways of spending what I earn.  Contrary to most BTC investors out there, I am actually wanting to use this as a form of currency that benefits my family.  The incredible rise in value over the course of the past year hasn’t hurt the effort either.  At first, I was going to stick with Xapo’s wallet because they have an integrated BTC debit card.  That changed when I discovered they don’t ship to Canada.  I am Canadian, so sadly, Xapo’s usefulness came to a screeching halt in this house!  I continued my faucet earnings, found BTC PTC sites that paid decently and added those to the daily mix, and continued my research.

Eventually push came to shove and I had to do something to keep my HPConnect InstantInk subscription paid up.  That was when I discovered Uquid.  At the time, they had a virtual credit card you could pre-load after sending over BTC to your Uquid wallet.  I sent over half my earnings at the beginning of August and had enough for two month’s payments in USD.  Uquid’s provider suddenly stopped working with them, sending the company scrambling for a new card provider for their customers.  I had to go get a pre-paid gift Mastercard to keep things rolling in the interim as I could no longer use the virtual card.

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Continuing my earnings efforts meant earning back what I’d had before August by November 2017.  December would be the moment I’d been waiting for!  Uquid found another provider, AND this time, their physical card shipped to Canada!!! YES!!!  I completed my application for a physical card on December 20th and sent over half my earnings to cover the cost of the card.  Shipping is free BTW!  The Christmas holidays came and went and I sent in a query about the status of the card because it wasn’t showing up on my dashboard.  I sent that on December 30th.  The card arrived January 2nd!  Apparently, while the status had not been updating, the application had been approved and shipping took place during the New Year’s holiday weekend!  I was so surprised when DHL Courier showed up on my doorstep that day!

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Today however, I got to test the card at a POS terminal at a local thrift store.  My daughter didn’t like the idea of me testing at a gas pump or grocery store, although I intend on using my BTC for that too.  So we went to Value Village and picked up a few items that were on my “to get” list.  I need to replace my cookie sheets, so we found one on the shelf today and grabbed it.  Turns out its insulated! Nice!  I’m also looking for a knitting hoop so I figure out how to knit grass.  If the experiment is a success, I will have a new way to make baskets while I try to reteach myself basket-weaving in general.  Rest assured, there will be blog posts here about that journey as I continue learning how to do things at home to cut costs while living better than if I was spending money I don’t have downtown.  Also found a replacement lid for my medium-sized saucepan.  So it was off to the till.

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I don’t know if it was the card’s chip, or the card terminal, but the terminal claimed the chip couldn’t be read.  The Uquid card comes with Tap-to-pay enabled, so I tried that instead and the transaction went through flawlessly.  It should be noted that the card’s currency denominations are in USD.  They don’t have CAD in their list of currencies supported for everyday transactions.  This made me curious how my transaction list would look when I got home and logged into my account.

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The transaction was listed as having been successfully completed, but the card balance was higher than I thought it should be.  That’s when I remembered the exchange rate between USD and CAD.  But even with the fee Uquid charges to handle that exchange on the back-end, I was pleasantly surprised to have basically earned on that purchase!  See screenshots for details.

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I earned roughly $1.22 in exchange, fees included, from today’s purchase.  As I click through site 87 on ITB, I am quite happy with that discovery!

Needless to say, I have found a very workable end-to-end system for earning, saving, and spending BTC!  The bigger way to generate the earnings is through InfinityTrafficBoost.  The savings account earning interest is through Freebitco.in, and the spending wallet/pre-load card is over at Uquid.  I invite you to check out the presentation I’ve created showing the steps to engage in to make this all happen for your household.

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BTC pay to click and ITB will be the better ways to earn going forward.  I am still earning via a quartet of faucets I still keep active, but now I’m only doing it a couple hours or so per day instead of spending all day doing it.   These sites also let you obtain referrals and then reward you for their efforts, so that can speed up your progress exponentially if you are the type to rope in family, friends, coworkers etc.

But I sit here a very happy clicker, techie and single mother as I recount for you the path from nothing to something to spending.  You read that right, I did not spend a single dime on this path!  Not one!  Not even a digital penny went into any of this!  All I’ve invested is my time.  That’s all it can take for you as well, just your time.  So as I click through site 97 on ITB, I will close off the writing portion and start adding my graphics to show you what I’m talking about today.  I’d love to have you join me on this journey!

(PS: Pics are now added as I click through site 117 toward my 12th pool share as a TPO2 advertiser, again, nothing out-of-pocket for what I am doing!)

Dream desk job

That Elusive Dream Job Where You Get to Sit Around All Day!

Do almost nothing all dayWhen I was a kid, we used to joke about wanting a job where you could put your feet up on your desk, and get paid almost to do nothing all day. Paper-pushers were seen as having it easy and sometimes someone of my generation to this day will find or create a meme of a secretary playing solitaire with a deck of cards spread out on her desk.

These days, the picture has changed slightly. Young people still think a job where they do almost nothing is preferable to one where you hustle and get worn out at the end of the day. But the picture now has people in hammocks by the beach instead. Pictures of secretaries now have them playing solitaire on their computer screen.

What kind of job can even remotely come close to this type of work? Many scams out there claim you can earn money without putting out any work whatsoever, and if you pay, you can earn even more apparently. But for all the scams out there aiming to swindle you out of your hard-earned cash, sometimes a job comes along that greatly reduces the work required of you. This kind of job is not for everyone mind you.

receptionist jobPeople hard-wired for action need jobs where they are out in the bush, on the construction site, greeting people at the hotel or serving tables in a restaurant. We have to be honest and ask ourselves where we’d be if such people didn’t exist. Who would build the homes we live in? Who would stock the shelves where we shop? Who would ensure gas stations stay open when we go to fuel up? Who would man the banks where we do business? Who would deliver our packages? We need people who love to do these types of jobs and we need them to continue doing these jobs.

But there is another class of people who struggle to do these jobs. They have health issues. Maybe they are physically or mentally impaired in some way. They still need an income above what government disability cheques can give. Many in these groups would love to be independent and not rely on others to pay their bills, but there isn’t a job out there they can do. Many employers still are not sure how to employ someone in a wheelchair, or someone with a speech impediment, or someone with a mental challenge. I cheer every time I hear of an employer making a point to hire such people. A grocery store where I shop has hired several mobility-challenged or mentally-challenged people, and it is a pleasure to do business with them. A department store where I shop occasionally now has a wheel-chair bound mentally-challenged man in their electronics department, and he’s got quite the sense of humour. I enjoy talking with him as I put through my purchase. However, employers like these are few and far between.

Using a computer and the "netI have found a way to make a decent income that only requires general knowledge of how to use a computer, how to behave safely online, and the personal drive to learn anything necessary to get the job done. The actual daily time commitment is only one hour for the individual portion of the job itself. Building a team to help you however, will take the time you choose to give it. The task itself isn’t hard, if not a bit on the boring side. Learning to support a team might be new to some people, but again, it’s not hard to pick up on how to do it. Tools are available to aid in team building and management, track earnings, make withdrawals, etc, and the entire thing can be done with no out-of-pocket expenditures period. It’s even possible to build your team using various free methods of advertising.

So if you spend one hour every day doing the actual job, and perhaps a couple hours a day doing your advertising and team support, you could, if you stick with it, have a decent income within 2 month’s time. The trick is getting past the crowd that wants money for absolutely nothing! They don’t want to put out time, effort, or cash to get where they think they want to go. They also do not want to teach themselves anything and figure others have to do that task for them as well.

I am looking for a minimum of 4 people to join my team and commit to one hour per day. They must be eager to teach themselves new things and not afraid to explore and click around. I’d love to find an experimental team of 20 to 36 people in this group I have described. Those who don’t think they are good at any kind of marketing would be placed in my first row of team members. Those who don’t care for marketing but can do it if push comes to shove would go in the next row, supporting those I placed above them. Those who love to promote stuff and could sell ice cream to an Eskimo (white foreigner to Inuit country) would be placed under the second row. Because you need a team of four people to make this work in 51 days, that’s four under me. Then four under each of those under me. If we stop there, we have 20 people. However, if we go for that third row mentioned earlier, we need 16 more people to place one go-getter under each of the “will market if I have to” people. Those “will market if I have to” people would still need to find 3 other people on their own, but they have a kickstarter under them to help out.

We would start this experimental group as follows:

  • Day One: First four sign up using my affiliate link, get their 8 start-up tasks done with task eight requiring their own affiliate link being given to the four I place under them. They surf their 100 sites.
  • Day Two: Those four sign up under each affiliate they are assigned to. So the first four now each have their own four and help those four get their 8 tasks done, which includes getting their own affiliate links to give to the go-getter I’ve assigned to them. They surf their 100 sites along with myself and row one.
  • Day Three: The go-getters receive their upline’s affiliate url and sign up. They complete their 8 tasks. They surf their 100 sites along with myself and row’s one and two.
  • Day Four: 51 Day count down begins with each of us surfing our 100 sites every single day before midnight at ITB. I believe ITB is in the Eastern Standard Time Zone of the US because the daily rollover is at 9pm my time. I believe they also follow Daylight Savings Time, so midnight changes by one hour in March and then in late October/early November. This is important to note for those who do not observe Daylight Savings Time.

When the 51 Day count down reaches day 30, the snowball suddenly starts rolling, and with TPO packages priced as they are right now, that snowball could actually hit sooner than day 30 of the 51 Day count down. But when that day arrives, a maximum of 21 days later or sooner depending on the pricing of TPO advertising packages, this experiment could net everyone on the team a tidy sum of Bitcoin.

When that sum arrives, you will need a wallet to put it in. 99.9% of the wallets available don’t pay you any interest to store your money there. Whether you have your own wallet on your computer, phone, or a hardware device at home, or whether you use Xapo, coinbase, localbitcoin, etc, online, none of these pay you interest. Your deposit just sits there. One online wallet however DOES pay interest compounded daily on any balance you keep above 30,000 satoshi. Interest is calculated at 4.08% annually. This is your savings account and will continue to have your BTC earned at ITB earn interest until you wish to spend it.

When you are ready to begin spending your BTC, you have various options open to you. The best one is over at Xapo.com. Sign up for a wallet there, deposit double the amount necessary to apply for and have their BTC debit card shipped to your address, and then make your first purchase, bill payment or withdrawal at your local ATM. One note however: Xapo does not ship to Canada and a few other countries. Make sure you look at their list of supported countries to know if you can use their BTC Debit card. If, like myself, you are not in their list of supported countries, check out Wirex, bitpay or Spectrocoin to see if your country is in their lists. If so, follow the same advice to get their card in hand. Even those sites don’t ship to Canada however so I have gone with Uquid.  I applied for their pre-load debit card on December 20th, 2017, it was marked as shipped on December 29th, and it arrived on my doorstep the morning of January 3rd, 2018!  That’s pretty fast processing! It should be noted that these last few options are not true BTC debit cards. Instead, they convert your funds into either USD, Euro, or GBD to use as currency in your corner of the world. For me, that means a 3% exchange fee on each purchase I do with the Uquid card, but it currently is my only option here in Canada. When better options become available to Canadians, I will let people know.
Earn 3.24BTC in JUST 51 Days!So to summarize: I have found the job of everyone’s dreams where you can put your feet up on your desk and do almost nothing for free, spending as little as one hour per day working the ITB earnings system. You must be willing to learn and willing to teach yourself as you explore the ITB system to familiarize yourself with how it works. This job is perfect for those who can’t do the myriad of more labour-intensive jobs that we all need people around us doing. If you need a less intensive job mentally or physically, this is for you. I want to put together an experimental group of 20 to 36 people willing to put this system to the test for 51 days. That’s a minimum one-hour daily commitment until the experiment is completed. When your earnings are ready for withdrawal to your BTC account, use the daily interest account I’ve mentioned above as your savings account. Use Xapo or another service as your active account you will use for daily spending on bills, groceries, etc.

Are you game? Will you be one of those 20 to 36 people I’m looking for? Do you know a group of people who would be game for such an experiment? 51 days is almost 2 months, so you could look at it in a more simplified way to say this is a 2 month one-hour per day commitment. People you know don’t have to be good at marketing either, as I will organize them according to willingness to advertise and promote. I just need a list of names and email addresses to get this ball rolling. If you are game, get in touch with me using this form.  If you use earlier links to sign up first, you will end up directly under me whether you want to be there or not.  If you want to be placed according to how much you do or don’t like marketing, then please send in the form below before signing up.  I will ensure you get the appropriate sign-up link so that you land where you will most benefit.

Please double-check your email address to be sure it has both an @ symbol as well as a period between the domain and the suffix. A comma instead of a period means you won't hear from me. A missing @ symbol also means you won't hear from me.
Love marketingHate marketingWill if I have to and reasonably successful at it
Your answer here will help me fit you in where the 51 Day experiment will do you the most good.